Nicolas Bravo

Nicolas Bravo (10 September 1786-22 April 1854) was President of Mexico from 10 to 19 July 1839 (succeeding Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and preceding Anastasio Bustamante), from 26 October 1842 to 4 March 1843 (interrupting Santa Anna's terms), and from 28 July to 4 August 1846 (succeeding Mariano Paredes and preceding Jose Mariano Salas). He was a member of the Conservative Party of Mexico.

Biography
Nicolas Bravo was born in Chichihualco, Guerrero, New Spain in 1786, and he served under Jose Maria Morelos and Agustin de Iturbide during the Mexican War of Independence. However, he took up arms against Iturbide's constitutional monarchy in 1821, and he, Guadalupe Victoria, and other rebels were imprisoned until Iturbide was forced to resign and flee the country. From 10 October 1824 to December 1827, he served as Vice President of Mexico under Victoria, and he launched a failed 1827 insurrection against the government due to the clashes between his and the government's rival Freemason rites. He was exiled to Ecuador, but he returned to Mexico in 1829 after a change in national government, and he served as President in 1839, from 1842 to 1843, and in 1846 as a Conservative Party of Mexico politician. During the Mexican-American War, he was captured at the Battle of Chapultepec, and he died at his hacienda on 22 April 1854 on the same day as his wife; they were rumored to have been poisoned.